Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-08-13

who on earth found great JOY in the
fine arts, are now INDUCING their tast'
ina the same direction. On earth they
had their gIaddest treasures amid pc
lures and statuary, and in the study Oh
the laws of light and shade AID per-
spective. Have you any idea that that
afluence of faculty At death collapsed
and perishsdp Why so, when there is
mere FOR them to look at, and they
have keener appreciation OF the beaut!-
full, and they stand amid the very looms
where the sunsets and the rainhows
and the spring morning are woven?
Are you so obtuso as TO suppose tina.
because The painter drops his easel and
the sculptor his chisel and the engraver
his knife, that therefore that taste, which
he was charging and intensitying for
forty or fifty years. is entirely obllter-
atedp These artists, or these friends
Of art. on earth worked in coarse ma
terial and with imperfect brain and
with frail hand. Now they have car
ried their art into larger liberties and
into wider circumference. They are ~t
their ola business yet but without the
fstigues, without The limitations. with
out the hindrances Of the terrestrial
studio.
Raphael could now improve upon
his masterpiece OF Michael the
Archangel now that he has seen him.
and could improve upon his master
piece Of the Holy Family now that he
has visited them. Michael Angelo
could better present the
LAST JUDGMENT
| After he has seen its flash and heard
the rumbling battering rams OF its
thunder. Exquisite colors here, grace
full lines here, powerful c~hiaroscurc
here; but 1 am persuaded that the
grander studios and the brighter gal
leries are higher up by the winding
marble stairs OF the sspulchre, and that
Turner, and Holman, Hunt, and Rem
brandt, and Titan, and Paul Feronese,
if they exercised saving faith in the
Christ whom they portrayed upon the
canvas, are painters yet, but their
strength Of faculty multiplied ten thou
sand fold. The reason that God took
away their eye and their hand. and
their brain was that He might give
them something more timber, more
wieldy, more skilful, more mulliplitant.
DO not. therefore, be melancholy
among the tapestries. and the brio a.
brac, and the embroideries, aud the
water %colors, and the works of art
which your departed friends used to
admire. Do not say: II am sorry
they had to leave all these things
Rather say: ii am glad they have
gone up to higher artistic opportunity
and appreciatIon.' Our friends who
found 20 much joy in the fine arts on
earth are now luxuriating in Louvres
and Luxembourgs celestial.
l remark again. that all our de-
parted Christian friends who in this
world were p~assionately fond of music
are still regaling that taste in the
world celestial. Tie Bible says sc
much about the
MUSIC OF HEAVEN
that it cannot all be tigurative. The
Bible over and over again speaks of the
songs of heaven. If heaven had nc
songs of its own a vast number o.
those of earth would have been taker
up by the earthly %emigrants. Surely
the Christian at death does not lose his
memory. Then there must be millions
of souls in heaven wao know .'Coro
nation" and "Autioch," and "Moun'
Pisgah," and '.Old Hundred" The
leader of the eternal orchestra nee,
only once tap his baton and all HEAVIER
will be ready for the hallelujah.
Cannot the souls siugP How Otter
we compliment some exquisite SINCE
by saying: There was SO much sou
in her music" In heaven it will b.
all soul until the body after a Will
comes up in the
RESURRECTION
and there will he an additional heaven
Cannot the soul hearp If it can hea
then it can hear music. DO not, there
fore, let it b in your household wael
some member leaves far heaven as it i
in some households, that you close tn
piano and unstring the harp for tw'
years, because the fingers that used t.
play on them are still. You must re
member that they have better instru
ments of music where they are.
You ask me: "Do they nave rea
harps and real trumpets and real or
gansp' | do net know. Some wise
acres say positively there are no suc'
things in heaven. l do not know, bu
l should not be surprised if the Goo
who made all the mountains and al
the hills and all the forests and all tn,
metals of the earth and all the growths
of the universe-l should not be sur.
prised if He could, if he had n mind to,
make a few harps and trumpets and
organs
Grand old Haydn, sick and worn
out, was carried for the last time into
the music hall and there he heard his
own ~oratorio of the Creation His
tory says that as the orchestra came to
that famous passage: LET there be
light!' the whole audience rose and
cheered, and Haydn waved bis hand
toward heaven and said: at comes
from there" Overwhelmed with bis
own music, he was carried out in his
chair, and as he came to the door he
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